Please cite as:
Joshi, Madhav. "Prosecuting the Political Opposition: The Court and Subnational Variation in the Onset of the Maoist Conflict in Nepal." Japanese Journal of Political Science.

This folder includes the following files to replicate tables and figures in the paper, titled "Prosecuting the Political Opposition: The Court and Subnational Variation in the Onset of the Maoist Conflict in Nepal." 

Main Data: "Nepal Court and Maoist Conflict Onset Replication Data.dta" 
Dat for Figure 2: "Fig2_Data"
Replication Code for main tables, appendix and figures: "Analysis 2025-11-13.do"
Replication code for Figure 2: "Figure 2 code_.do"
Log file showing replicaitons: "Nepal Court and Maoist Conflict Onset.smcl."

The main data includes the following variables.

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Variable      Storage   Display    Value
    name         type    format    label      Variable label
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sno  		           	byte    %10.0g                sno
sn              		float   %10.0g                sn
district        		tr27   %27s                  district
year            		int     %10.0g                year
year_25death    		float   %9.0g          		       
mountain_region 		byte    %8.0g                 Mountain region
hilli_region    		byte    %8.0g                 Hill region
region_east     		float   %9.0g                 Eastern development region
region_mid      		float   %9.0g                 Central development region
region_west     		float   %9.0g                 Western development region
region_farwest  		float   %9.0g                 Far western development region
dist_nat_gap_criminal		float   %8.0g        Change in criminal cases
dist_nat_gap_civil 		float   %8.0g                 Change in civil cases
time            		float   %9.0g                 
ln_pop         			float   %9.0g               * Population (log)
cast_eth_fract  		float   %9.0g               * Cast and ethnic fractionalization
ln_abs_total2001  		float   %9.0g               * Absent popoulation (log)
litrate_1991_2001_GAP		float   %9.0g                 Literacy rate gap
road_density_GAP 		float   %9.0g                 Road density gap
lifeexp_1990_2011_GAP		float   %9.0g                 Life expectancy gap
percent_votes1991_1999_GAP	float   %9.0g                 Political participation gap

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